CES 2013: Watch Your Home Remotely with Dropcam

1/10/2013 3:10PM

Whether it's keeping an eye out for burglars or spying on your lazy cat, Dropcam allows you to livestream a camera feed from your home to any device. Dropcam CEO Greg Duffy joins digits to discuss. Photo: Dropcam.

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... I ... if you wait to your babysitter or maybe just checking on your dog will hear the office ... it's also a lot easier today to set up your own home remote video monitoring system to discuss that ... also from sea yes we have the CEO of drop him Greg Coffey joining us now Greg face a much ... higher up with driving under show ok what tell us first of all what is dropping ... so dropped into the cloud service by five cameras you can use to drop in on the things you care about Committee where ... he has been set up a drop them in just five minutes all you need to know survive but prosper ... what sets of wonderful network you can view it from anywhere in the world ... and I'd I'd ... I Phones enjoyed PC or Mac unwary like still fun is it power itself you plug it in your computer and you need to leave your computer online your way home ... you don't need to be there from here on one stop service of wonder why for that were all it needs is an AC DC adapter to provide power it always does underwrite the network with your computer's runner-up in fact you can take your computer with the like most people do these days ... and few drops in from wherever you are likely to see us for instance ... ok tell us what what are so many innovative ways ... uses the people are using the drop in what would now that they have that technology in its easier for them to set up in their home ... I had or what what are some of the ways they're using ... so the most popular distances for drop them ... her ... home security Opinion let's bring that much rain keeping an eye on your kids ... this is what most of our users do but we really have ... a lot of fun this this is the public as well because ... it turns out you can make it up camp public if he wants to broadcast live on the internet with just just by checking a box so my favorite ever is actually ... frankly that sport is it that the pet store built the team in ... our history and the chariot dropped and the battery around on his back ... he runs around the store and plays with bunnies and all sorts of other fun things while you watch like letting it they have the life of the tortoise ... we also have ... the cameras that ... adoption centers which were selected the camels as well that they did the adoption of animals all kinds of things ... in the cool thing is that you have to watch truck and twenty four seven ... he actually up the crowd DVR service that can store up to thirty days of video from the cameras he can go back to experience moments after this happened and by the way you can also you don't necessarily need to be watching it ... from your desktop computer do you ... that's right we have a ... really good mobile apps for high that ... I've grown to enjoy it ... but you can pop in on the I pad ... not only can you ... do want to write you can view ... for cameras that I mean you can have a number of cameras associated with the topic out they don't even have to be honest and I were ... the other really cool thing is that the camera has night vision so it's useful in the dark is well ... so ... you can see in complete darkness you can also communicate that ... to a audio ... so not only can you see what Frankie is doing with that you can talk back and see if the response ... ok ok and now this is ... not all ... necessarily very cheap now published a job can cost is often there's also a monthly fee correct ... so the monthly fee is optional drop them itself drop admits he is the hundred and forty nine dollars ... like it's your basic service for free is the basic exceeded by doing all of the apps and even though she works to dinner with your phone whenever there's something going on in your camera ... all that comes with a camera for free ... if you want reporting just nine ninety five above ... it's a great deal because the store seven days of video in the cloud three hundred and sixty and our reporting for today you never miss anything okay so in fact if you just wanna see the live stream you actually don't have to pay the monthly fee that's only ... to record the video in the cloud a few historic ... we are proud that you can even make it up them public the call comes for free with the basic service would read it but everything that we can enter the basic service for free so that you don't have them up would be if you don't want to ... cover the DVR recording an Internet storage for your the clout of the cost is nine at the Gabba ... okay last question will fast for me these are out there and ... I mean we take in more video than YouTube for the largest and best in the sun the entire internet ... so while we don't talk about the particular number of Dawkins out there as a private company has alot of were building a cloud service that is to process all this video